BE 03/1, 001 (P105555)

Administrative tablet excavated in Nippur (mod. Nuffar), dated to the Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC) period and now kept in Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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Transliteration

obverse
1. 1(disz) bu-ka
 en: 1 (full time worker): Buka,
2. ARAD2 a2-la-la-kam
 en: slave of Alala;
3. a2-la-la igi-ni i3-szi-gar
 en: Alala examined him;
4. mu lugal u4 ba-zah3-de3-na-ga2
 en: by the royal name: “On the day, I flee
5. szer7-da he2-a
 en: let it be a (capital?) crime,”
6. bi2-in-du11
 en: he swore;
7. za-an-ME-NI ama-ni
 en: Zan-MENI, his mother,
8. u3 geme2-{d}en-lil2 dam-na-ni
 en: and Geme-Enlil, his wife,
9. szu-du2 nu-zah3-da
 en: as guarantors of not fleeing,
reverse
1. ba-an-de6-esz2
 en: went carried;
2. 1(disz) lugal-gur4
 en: 1: Lugal-gur,
3. 1(disz) nam-ha-ni
 en: 1: Namḫani,
4. 1(disz) ur-ga2-gi4-a
 en: 1: Ur-Gagia,
5. 1(disz) szesz-kal-la
 en: 1: Šeškalla,
6. 1(disz) ur3-e-ba-du7
 en: 1: Ur-Ebadu,
7. 1(disz) us2-a-ni
 en: 1: Us’ani,
8. 1(disz) hal-li2-mu
 en: 1: Ḫallimu,
9. lu2-inim-ma-bi-me
 en: are the witnesses;
10. iti sze-sag11-ku5 min
 en: month: “Harvest,” the second,
11. mu us2-sa bad3 mar-tu ba-du3
 en: year after: “The Martu wall was erected.”